THE PAST IS PROLOGUEThe past is prologue in this daily bar chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average circa 1929, just before the infamous "Black Thursday," October 24th, 1929, helped usher in the most damaging portion, the C wave, of the correction that was to become known as "The Great Depression."
Much like today, the 1920's saw a rampant, unchecked rise in stock and land valuations fueled by an omnipresent and still young Federal Reserve System. In his 1955 expose' of the 1929 downturn entitled "the Great Crash," John Kenneth Galbraith famously wrote that "There was far more money flowing into the market than there was intelligence to guide it!" That quote seems apropos today, as we have merely seen the initial "shot over the bow," in this unfolding "Great Downturn." In my opinion, we are clearly on "The Road to Sefdom," as F.A. Hayek so famously warned about in his classic tome of the same name.
The parasite, (the government in all its forms, including the Federal Reserve System) have drained the last ounce of blood, (capitalism) out of the host. What is left now is an empty shell of an ideal that many men better than I have fought and died to protect. Over the ensuing years we will march happily down the Road to Serfdom, grasping readily at "helicopter money," and other "fast-passes," to socialism, as one after another "saviors," come forward with their' own particular flavor of totalitarian rule.
The veil of socialism will engulf us all if we do not act when the puppet masters prophesize what F.A. Hayek coined as "The Great Utopia." The Stock Market, as well as civilization itself is on the cusp of a monumental turn.
"When the course of civilization takes an unexpected turn, when, instead of the continuous progress which we have come to expect, we find ourselves threatened by evils associated by us with past barbarism, we naturally blame anything but ourselves!"
Choose wisely my friends!
Socialism
TOLD YOU SO!EXPECTING A BOUNCE HERE, BUT THE TREND IS MASSIVELY BEARISH!
THE CANADIAN LOONIE IS THE WEAKEST CURRENCY IN THE WESTERN WORLD, EVEN WORSE THAN THE AUD (IT MAY NOT SEEM IT YET, BUT JUST WAIT!)
THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE GEORGE SOROS IS BETTING ON A CURRENCY CRISIS HERE JUST LIKE ENGLAND IN THE 1970s!
BAILOUTS FOR GOVERNMENTS ARE THE REAL PROBLEM!I SEE MANY PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT BAILOUTS FOR THE PRIVATE SECTOR!
HOW ABOUT THE REAL PROBLEM: BAILOUTS FOR GOVERNMENTS!
I WOULD BET MY LIFE SAVINGS THAT THE ECB WILL GUARANTEE THAT ITALIAN (AND EVERY OTHER EUROPEAN NATION'S) BOND YIELDS REMAIN SUPPRESSED BY SACRIFICING THE VALUE OF THE SAVINGS OF EVERY PERSON IN EUROPE!
UNTIL GOVERNMENTS ARE ALLOWED TO DEFAULT, WE WILL CONTINUE A STEADY MARCH TOWARDS GLOBAL COMMUNISM!
WESTERN CIVILIZATION, THE FREEST AND MOST PROSPEROUS COLLECTION OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE HISTORY OF THE PLANET, WAS BUILT ON PRIVATE SAVINGS ACCRUED THROUGH EXCESS PRODUCTIVITY (ACCUMULATED CAPITAL)!
THE RIGHTS OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND THE VALUE OF THAT CAPITAL IS ON THE VERGE OF DESTRUCTION!
An extremely easy but super efficient investing ruleIt's actually disgusting that it would be so easy...
Countries approaching socialism: Sell & Let them starve.
Countries abandonning socialism: Buy & Hold.
It's barely more complicated than this.
Most African countries have been living in absolute misery probably because after the soviet union stopped sending them free stuff, the european union and americans have been taking pity on them and throwing free stuff at them. To feel good about themselves. All this has accomplished is enabling awful (even much worse than the soviet union's) anti business anti ownership regulations, the people need to be pushed to the limit and have nothing to lose and nothing to hope for to make a change, all these "helpful" organisations sending food clothes medicines, all these altruist doctors, they are responsible for misery in Africa.
If they think they are going to heaven for their "good actions" boy do I have bad news for them (:
With the US stock market in a bubble and nearing explosion I'd say it's not the time to invest right now.
The whole world will feel the shockwave.
Some GDP growths:
I've been looking a bit at Rwanda but just to get a better idea, to be able to more easilly recognize when this happens ELSEWHERE, I will not invest in a country of murderers.
While the herd is getting all excited by big US names and new techs (dot coms, crypto...) AFTER the gains have been made, anyone will a brain bigger than a walnut should look for everything that is undervalued, it should be a habit. I am a speculator not an investor but I figured this is how you do it. I am not saying there is no speculating, actually investing in some 3rd world unstable countries you better be prepared to lose then totality of your investment, but it can also go way up.
Imagine this: some complete ruin of a country, worth zero, simply mentionning its name and investment in the same sentence makes your average person laugh.
The harder they laugh the bigger the potential. "The people" are ALWAYS wrong just do the exact opposite.
Also, if the population of the USA gets butthurt and jealous enough they WILL vote socialist I can guarentee 100% it will happen if they get salty enough.
Just like Donald Trump could win the election in 2016.
And when that happens, all the world economies relying on free innovations coming from "evil capitalist" US will crash. Forget GDP growth. Plus there's the climate religious freaks that want to conquer the world.
Also europe free ride on the back of the US military will probably be over. They're going to have to spend their own money.
Having ideals is cute when you have a large nation doing all the work for you, or when you have huge Oil exports and literal unironic millions of slaves.
But when reality knocks at the door, it wields a baseball bat.
Always remember: During the white revolution Iran experienced double digit growth.